December 17, 2024 • 46 mins
We all loved Christmas in the 70s, but some of the things we did traditionanly might just need to stay in the past!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, busheads, Welcome to the Seventies Buzz Podcast. I'm Curtis Tucker.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
And I'm Todd Wheeler, bringing you our memories or lack thereof,
of growing up in the seventies.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
We are not a history podcast. We just want you
guys to know that sometimes we get things wrong, and
if you listen to us long enough, you're going to
be screaming at your device trying to give us the
right answers.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
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Speaker 2 (00:37):
Take two two, take two three four two four, sex a,
whatever it takes.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Who do we appreciate?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
We appreciate all our dish.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Bow Wow, Well what.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
The heck found? Bound found bown? Okay, so let's get
business allway.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
So so suck your toe.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
So so suck my toe all the way to Mexico?
Is that politically correct? Can we say that? Now? I
want to saying it just said it got to record it.
It's all my It's on the weberd.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
They're shitting us down tomorrow. Hey, everybody, welcome to another
exciting Trusshold of the seventies BZ podcast. People, guys can
hit us up at five eight oh five, four one
three eight oh five or buzz at buzzheadbeat dot com.
Col it's great having you guys here. It feels all
(01:46):
warm and cozy and fun, shaw shaw shining. Yeah, so
hit us up like, Uh, we had a few I
got emails, we got phone calls. We got emails or
phone calls verse, let me do email real quick, so
it says I got it pulled up. Uh and there.
I won't go in real deep. But Leonard Barnes emailed
(02:09):
with some bizarre tourist traps for a roadside attraction.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
You keeping track of that.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
I am so, but I'm not going to talk about
him now. So but thanks Leonyard.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I don't think we've heard from Leonard before. I don't
recognize the name. Yeah, first time, long time, I know.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
I don't you know.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
My first time long time was.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
My memory, of course is not so good, so I
don't know. Philip Carrey Uh sent in so thanks for
the Christmas card and stickers.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Pillips and Philip Phillips.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yep said his Peanuts is his favorite. Talks about kitchen gadgets,
the hair in a can, pocket Fishermen, and the Ronco
hit music album not really a kitchen.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Well, I guess you probably do it in.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
The Ronco company products.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I guess this is what he's talking about. Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
He says, we had Ronco candle making kit and bottle
cutting kit. I think I might have had that too.
Bottle the bottle one was a good bottle cutting one.
Merry Christmas to us guys and our families. He says,
Did I miss you talking about making snow ice cream
on your Winter episode? That's something I still do to say. Yes, No,
you did not miss because I never made us.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I didn't hear about that. That was a thing too.
I was way into adulthood, like.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
And yeah, make a nice cream out of snow was
not a thing in our part of town.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I guess just buy ice cream.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
But thanks for that memory, Philip.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Just go to Broms and get some to.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Broms and then we Broms. Yep. Leonard sent another email
Popular Foods that had disappeared. I'll have to click on that.
That could be an episode. Uh, Steve from Austin says,
then some roadside to try it. Well, that snake one,
(03:57):
so we got that. Thank you for that, and then
Jeffrey emailed. During the seventies, the Netherlands was ruled by
Queen Juliana and Prime Minister Don Yu. We call the
seventies de Jeron's seventy bell bottom jeans. We called soul
(04:18):
broken broken PS. I made Onergurg for the first time.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Man, you just butchered his native tongue.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Good jobs on Annigury. I don't know. I don't.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Please don't take offense, Jeffrey, Queen, I don't.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I don't, and I don't even know what picture goes
with it. He sent pictures, but I don't since I
don't know how to say it, I think I can't.
I don't have no idea.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Maybe he could like spell it out.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
It's O, N I G I R I.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
You lost me at OI and I so okay.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Anyway, that's kind of the emails I have in front
of me. So thanks everybody for sending in those emails.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
So those who got cards and stickers sent should have
everybody should have got them all one.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Now oh yeah, by now if you yeah, yeah, okay,
if I had your address, you should have gotten something.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Okay. Uh Styton called, but that's for a buzz ed radio,
so check in to see what's Stayton.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
But real quick, real quick, Dave was wondering, how does Stanton?
How did Styton know so quickly what episode he called
in on?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
On seventies bus.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
On seventies bus and and so we'll get Dave and
Stateon out the way at the same time. Well, Dave
Stayton knows because that's what he's been doing, is going
through every episode and jotting down how many ums we say,
and how many times Todd burbs and how many times
Dave calls in and.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
How many times I see.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
So Styton's been cataloging all that, so he's got all
that in like a big spreadsheet. So he would have
to be the one that knows how many episodes you
have not called in on.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I'd be surprised of him because we.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Don't know off the top of our head.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I'm going to say, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
But for anybody wondering, Dave has been calling in since
twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yeah, I don't remember the date or whatever, and Dave
has another you want to do the do you want
to answer his He was confused about growing up in Oklahoma. Yeah,
gust seventies.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Yeah, Yeah, he forgot that we were doing Facebook Live
last week and that's why he missed his sister. Her
birthday is this Friday, which is my birthday. I thought
that was pretty cool. And then my wife's birthday was yesterday.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
And today's Mark Mankins's birthday.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
So we yeah, lots of December birthdays.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Dave.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
We don't exactly know what episode or what we exactly said.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Stateent does, but.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Dave is say said that we said something about growing
up in Oklahoma was great. It is, but then something
about we wouldn't want to grow up in Oklahoma.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Yeah. I think what we realized is it's being a
kid in Oklahoma in.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
The seventies was awesome. That's why we do this podcast.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Yeah, and wherever you lived would be awesome as a
just because it's you know, just being a kid in
the seventies was awesome no matter where you were. But
as you got to the point in your life you
started dating and wanted to go do stuff like we
didn't have big concerts. If we wanted to go see
Kansas or or any band, we'd have to go to
(07:44):
the city or Tulsa. I don't know. I don't ever
remember going to Tulsa to see a band.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
No, or out of state. So what we're thinking, Dave,
is maybe we were talking about like late high school
college age, when it wasn't that exciting to live in oklahom.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah, because because all of my kids in high school,
all of them, the spread of them, all were like, oh,
I can't wait to get out of out of ing it,
especially a lot of them moved to Oklahoma City and
then then they're like, no, we got to go.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Yeah, and I moved away.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Yeah at that age, so I didn't because I was father.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
You were tied down.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I had to work.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Yeah, So I so I don't know unless you can
tell us exactly what episode that was and what we said,
that's all we configure.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Yeah, And I've always said Oklahoma is a great place
to live, but not so much to visit unless you
know some guys that are podcasters there.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
You go and you want to come visit, and that
leads into Gretchen called Gretchen Call.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Yeah, see what did Gretch you'd have does she? Uh,
Gretchen is ready to go on an adventure.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
That's like I always say, everybody should have an adventure,
play and.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Up in the future, always something to look forward to.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Yeah. So yeah, So Oklahoma it's got some you know,
We've got the little River walk now, and we've got
the there's a Cowboy museum.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
And Oklahoma is very diverse. I mean we got deserts, mountains, rivers.
I think it's one of the one it's one of
the states that has like the most different different areas. Geographical,
it's different depending on where you go.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Oklahoma's cool, yeah, Oklahoma school.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
And by the way, Gretchen, it does not get hot
here in February and March.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
No, it's actually chiley in February.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I think February is probably are cold.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Well, I think March is when we get probably more
snow too.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Actually yeah, so yeah, April.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
I would come in May when there's tornadoes. Oh yeah,
I mean that's the thing that people literally come from
other countries to Oklahoma in May. You could take your
tornado to watch to chase tornadoes.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
You could take a tornado watching. I never been. You
can take us both I've never been there, you go, yeah, yeah,
so yeah, and if anybody needs space to stay, Curtis
has a lot of room in his house.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Whatever.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
I do have a guest house. And if anybody wants
to come there more than to excuse me, Todd get room,
just give me heads up so I get a clean
up because it's dusty.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
That's what we ought to do. Gretchen could come, and
Dave could come, and Christopher Todd could come, and uh
Paul from Australia could come.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Yeah, from down Under. Yeah sure, it could be like
to yeah sure, and they all have to be on
the podcast.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Oh yeah, oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
So if you're gonna come, make sure you're here on
a Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Exactly, plan not record on another night.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I guess we could, yeah, but that messes Curtis up.
When you mess up as Curtis, Curtis has a routine,
you do. Yeah, we don't want to message routina.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Yeah, so back to so back to Dave's Dave's thing
real quick. So yeah, so growing up in the seventies
in Oklahoma, Yeah, it was awesome. And again that's why
we do the podcast because had we grown up in
the sixties.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Which we were here in the sixties.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
But we weren't like growing up up. I mean we
were so young, we didn't really get to do a
lot of stuff on our own. And then by the
time we got to the eighties, we were driving and
kind of grown up.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
So getting in trouble growing up was greatest in the seventies.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
And why is that, mister Wheeler, Well, that was.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
The greatest decade, No, man, And it was You're gonna
hurt your voice on these days.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Oh no, oh no, s you should have used to
hear me when I do. Uh. When I was on
the radio with Klepper for those three years, I listened
every Friday. It's Friday, Friday, Friday Friday. I'd go for
as long as I could hold my breath.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Yeah, you want me to play that for you? Oh
you still have well, hecky, I still hang on. Give
me a second. I gotta find it. Look at that.
I gotta clean this. I gotta clean this board up here.
I got a shoot.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Yeah. So so here's real quick to let you guys
know what's happening with our podcasts. Tonight, we are going
to try to record four episodes, two Seventies Buzz and
two Buzzhead Radio.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
And so the.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
First episodes are probably going to be about forty five minutes,
maybe a little bit shorter than normal, and then we're
gonna squeeze in some thirty minute episodes to cover next week,
which would be Christmas Eve. And that way, because Tod's
gonna be out of town. We wouldn't have recorded anyway
because it was Christmas Eve. But that way, you guys
(12:52):
get an episode and we don't have to repeat an
old one.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
So I don't want to repeat it a lot. I
think I think we should repeat old ones every once
in a while.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Yeah, but anyway, we'll get We're going to give you
guys a little Christmas flavor next.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
I'm not sure this is it. Let's play this Friday Friday.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
And if you guys ever want to know what our
tornado sirens sound like, you just you just heard them.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
You just heard them.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
You just heard them.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
There you go, yeah, oh, speaking to tornadoes. We'll talk
about that Buzzhead Radio.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Okay, guys, don't forget come on over to Buzzhead Radio
and listen over there.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I've got an interesting.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
That Oh really, yes, you jotted that down, so we'll
forget that.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Okay, I got notes.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Okay, So for tonight's episode, we've got four notepads. We've
got to we got to squeeze in some Christmas episodes
this year, So.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
No last next, So yeah, tonight's episode.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Yeah. So some of this we've talked about before, but
like on different episodes. But basically, what we're going to
do is cover the seventies Christmas traditions that if they're gone,
ought to be brought back. And some of these some
of these have kind of disappeared, but some of them
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are a little bit still around.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
I don't know that some of these need to come back.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Well, if you want to bring back that seventies flavor,
oh yeah, if you want to bring back lava seventies
type of Christmas. Yeah. So anyway, here's our list of
about seventeen traditions and see if you guys did these
traditions back.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
In the seventies. We only have twelve.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
I don't know, I'll snag the other five, I'm sure. Okay,
So homemade popcorn Garland. Did you guys make a popcorn
garland factory?
Speaker 2 (14:56):
I think I think we try one year, and it
just seemed like it was like a lot of trouble.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
See, it's funny you say that, because I think that's
exactly what Connying and I did. I think we did
it one Christmas and there was crud everywhere and the
popcorn was crumbling. There must be a secret, and then
so we I don't think we ever did it again.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Yeah no, I was like, yeah, I don't get.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
It, and I don't. I can't think of anybody whose
house I've been to in the last ten or twenty
years that still does it. So you guys, let us
know if anybody, any of our regular listeners. Do you
guys still do the popcorn garlands?
Speaker 2 (15:36):
See? I would take that as something they would do
back in like the eighteen hundreds when you couldn't go
to the couldn't go to T G and Y and
buy Christmas.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Which I think that's probably what they did, and then
it I'm guessing by the seventies it was probably fading out.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Yeah, so yeah, no, no popcorn garland.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
And then also says that people would put cranberries on
the strings as well corn and cranberry's.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Oh oh, the cranberries.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Yeah, oh yeah, I'd be putting them in a class
and adding vodka and bringing it.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Oh well, okay, okay, let's get over there.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
On your list.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Do they do Christmas TV specials anymore, like.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
The Brady Bunch or Sonny and Sheer or Andy Willis. Well,
last last night they did a little Big Town. They're
a country music group and so them. Yeah, so they
had like an hour special where they had you know,
different country artists on and they say Christmas songs. So yeah,
(16:47):
I think they do. I just don't watch them anymore,
but yeah, I think they do. I think every year
there's different, like Kelly Clarkson. Probably it sounds like something
Kelly Clarkson. I love Kelly Clarkson. Yeah, yeah, not hating,
not hear at all. I think they do. Okay, yeah,
you guys, let us know if you have any favorites.
I don't know. I'm sure there's some that are annual,
(17:10):
but I can't like I say I don't. I don't
watch them.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Well, now listen, I have to take that back. I
watched one last night. I watched two Christmas Ey New
Christmas Ey things this weekend, trying to get me kickstarted
into the Christmas spirit. Yeah, not quite there yet. I
watched the New Red One. Uh huh, that's pretty cool.
(17:35):
I think it should have been more well received. And
then I watched the new Oh gosh, the Ventriloquist Jeff Dunham.
Oh he had a he had a Christmas Special, and uh,
pretty good. But yeah, I didn't think of that as
a TV show. I guess I thought it was more
of an Amazon Prime show.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Yeah, but yeah, but there are TV I guess they
still special.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Oh, and that reminded me a shout out to Julie Losh.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
We almost forgotten Julie.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Yeah, Julie got us a card. It has the Peanuts
Gang on it. Yeah, so were and she sent us
like a little letter that talks about you know, how
you send your family letters about what happened all year long, And.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Yeah, I've never done that either.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Lots of people we I've never done it, but lots
of people do that. We have a couple of we
got one friend and a couple of relatives that will
get annual letters and it literally is just like everything
that's happened to their kids or grandkids or major things
that happened to them throughout the year.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
So yeah, I guess my family's pretty tight knit. Not
tight knit, but it's just not a lot of others.
I have two sisters, so I pretty much know whatever
is going on. Yeah, yeah, so yeah, if you had
a big family, that would be the that would make sense.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Yeah, And that leads into my next one, which is
Christmas card exchanges. Yes.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Now we.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
For some reason, we're not real good at sending out
Christmas cards. It's I probably put one together and we
mail out maybe every three years. But we have certain
families that we always and now it's not really even cards.
I guess it's you get a Shutterfly card that's doesn't
(19:22):
even open, but it's just a photo and then it's
got their name on the back or something. So that's
what we get. But as far as like the old
seventies Christmas card exchanges, we never did that. My fan
you know, like in.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Exchange, like yeah, that time's day exchange. Yeah, yeah, I
don't remember that. I remember getting Christmas and I remember
we would have like just tons and tons of Christmas cards.
I think I've got three this year. I get one
from my aunt and she's my last aunt, aunt Pat,
and I just got it yesterday and she is she's
(19:58):
she's getting up there, she's she's she's in her eighties
and she's still and she handwrites a little note and
it's a card that you open stuff. And that's that
kind of gets me into Christmas spere because when I
get when I get the card from Aunt Pat, it's like, yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Now it's time, Yes, it's getting I don't I don't
remember getting cards from many people in the seventies. So,
but my mom was divorced and grandma and great grandma
were right there, so your nucleus family was right there, yeah,
right there, like on the same block almost. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
So yeah, do you ever go caroling?
Speaker 1 (20:42):
You know, just with the I think with our youth group,
but it probably late late seventies, yeah, the manual. I
think we might have gone caroling at one Christmas, but
not like family or I have very rarely been Christmas caroling.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Okay, so I have never been Christmas caroling.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
And so what do you do?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
You just go up to random people's houses and sing.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Yeah. Now, some churches will, like I say, they'll go
out and they'll go to church members' houses, knock on
the door and sing to church members. And but yeah,
I mean there are some people that literally just go
down the neighborhood and knock on you can get shot
doing that. Yeah, that's it's not that again. That maybe
why it's not done like it used to be.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
That's that's to me. That's a how do you know
if somebody's home? Do you start singing when they open
the door? Do you start singing before?
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Yeah? No, you knock on the door and if they
don't answer, you don't sing. You go on to the
next one. But now with bring doorbells, probably nobody's answering
the door. They're like, uh, the.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Carrollers are here. Everybody dun You are being recorded.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
That's funny. You say, I had just gotten out of
the shower this morning and the doorbell no, no again, Yeah,
And I'm like, you're so. I yeah. So I look
on my app and this dude standing there with a
big box and I'm like, dude, I can't come to
the door right this second. Do I need to sign
for something? He says, well, I can sign for it.
(22:14):
And I said, I said, either you signed for it
or you gotta wait for me to throw on some
shorts and get there. And so he signed for it
and laid it down.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
I got things to do. Go him out of here. Yeah, Oh,
that's convenient.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know why everybody comes when I'm
in the shower. Yeah, well I shower at ten, So
maybe that's why. I don't know who knows? Who knows?
How about home made Christmas ornaments?
Speaker 2 (22:44):
I now, I think, Okay, so we did. I do.
I do remember taking like a National geographic and folding
it like they're like you'd fold one page and the
next page you'd fold a different way, and you keep
doing that and then you would like bring it around
(23:05):
and glue the front pages together. Yeah, make the little
tree thing, and you would like like I think we
spray painted and green and red and stuff. I do
remember doing that.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
I remember making ornaments in school and taking them home.
Oh ye, so, and I think we might even still
have some with the girls and maybe even me and
Denise when we were little. But as far as like
our family, we didn't like make I don't remember making ornaments.
We always had the real typical seventies ornaments though, the
(23:38):
ball you know, round bulbs and the funky shaped, oddly
colored things. But yeah, but no, I don't. I don't
know if people still do people still make a lot
of hand handmade Christmas ornaments, If you guys may if
there's anybody out there that makes handmade Christmas ornaments, let
us know. We'd love to see a picture, yeah, picture
(23:58):
of them.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Yeah yeah. Did you ever eat fruitcake?
Speaker 1 (24:04):
You know, I'm trying to think have I ever, like,
honestly eaten a bite of fruitcake? If I have, I
don't remember it, so I cannot honestly say that I've
ever tried fruitcake.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
So I was at the liquor store yesterday. Oh and
JB and Judy, you know, Copparatto was in there. There's
a couple ahead of me, and they buy some bourbon,
and I just kind of halfway listening to what they
were talking about, none of my business. And they left,
and you know up there talking to Judy and she's like,
(24:39):
I heard Judy say, well, maybe the bourbon will make
it better.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
I was gonna say, oh, yeah, I know people that
do put bourbon in their fruitcake.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
And she goes, have you ever had bourbon and fruitcake?
And I'm like, I don't ever remember having fruitcake because
it's it's always had a bad reputation that I.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
You know, and I think that's only because of comedians,
and that one comedian whoever said that there's only one.
And now that may have been later than the seventies,
but like, there's only one fruitcake in the world, and
everybody just just passes it around.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
It just I think gifts it.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Yeah, I really think comedians killed fruitcake. But they still
sell them and people still eat them.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Apparently, because apparently they make a lot of them. But
Judy told me she goes. She said, every fruitcake I
ever had was like really really heavy.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
They're really thick. Yeah. Yeah, I don't even know how
you make them.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
I don't think you make them. I think you just
buy them. Well, these people were making.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
One, Yeah, but I do know I remember knowing people
that made them with bourbon.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Huh. Well, couldn't hurt.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Yeah. So yeah, if anybody out there makes their own
fruitcakes or you know, a brand, send it to us, guys,
and we'll we'll actually eat fruitcake on air, just for
you guys. Somebody sends us a fruitcake. So how about
Christmas cookie swaps?
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Swaps?
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Swaps?
Speaker 2 (26:07):
I don't remember swaps. I remember mom making cookies around
the holidays.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
You know, my mom was not a baker. She was
barely a cook. The only I think the only thing
my mom ever baked, was in a you know, rectangle
cake pan. She would to save money, she would bake
me and Connie a cake. You know, it is just
a cake mix. But other than that, I don't think
(26:34):
my mom ever baked. She never baked bread, or I don't.
I think Connie baked cookies every now and then, chocolate
chip cookies. But yeah, I don't remember ever doing a
cookie swap.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Swap like swap, like you make cookies. I'll make cookies
and we'll trade cookies.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Yeah, yeah, now I get well, but not in the seventies.
As gonna say, now, like our neighbor, she'll make cookies
and the fudge and this and then bring us a
little package and then Denise will make stuff and then
we'll take it to them. So I guess nowadays we
swap cookies, but I don't remember ever really doing that
(27:14):
in the seventies.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Why don't you just make your own and keep them? Well,
because it's kind of like trick or treating, you know,
why would I buy candy to give out and then
go out and get candy. I'll just eat the candy.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Well, but it's like Christmas too, I'm go, I have
to buy your kid a Christmas present, So you got
to buy my kid a Christmas present? So why don't
we just not buy each other's kid a Christmas present,
by our own kid an extra Christmas present?
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Exactly, Yeah, exactly exactly. Uh okay, I think we might
get some pushback on this. Oh what the heck is
an advent calendar? Well? I think I know what it is.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
It's just all the important religious dates up until there's
certain days up until Christmas.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Did you ever ever have an advent?
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Oh? No, we barely went to church, let alone had
an advent calendar.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
I think. I think honestly, the first time I ever
saw or had any reference to an advent calendar was
in the movie Home Alone.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Is it one that had the little doors?
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, because I remember thinking, what is that?
I've seen them in stores, you.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Know now, and I know what they are, but I
was just like, yeah, no, we we definitely did not.
I don't think we ever had a calendar in our house,
let alone.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
An advent calendar? What day is it? What month is it?
Speaker 1 (28:40):
I mean I couldn't. I couldn't tell you that, and
I you know, we started going to church, but you know,
as an adult and I still can't tell you the
days of Advent. I mean, I just I don't keep
up with that very well.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Okay, And isn't there like in some of them. Isn't
like when you open the door, it's like a little
treating there.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
I've never had one. Yeah, maybe, so I think there is.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
And then if you're in a household with you know,
three or four brothers and sisters, there's only one little
treat in that little bitty whole. Who gets the treat.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
You got for it?
Speaker 2 (29:19):
All right? Well, that brings out the true spear of
Christmas right there.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Yeah, don't you guys let us know our advent calendar
is still a big deal today or did I guess
did you guys have one in the seventies, because we
know we did not?
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Never, I mean literally that was when we went to
church Christmas Day and Eastern. Other than that, we didn't.
We didn't go to church a whole.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Lot heathens youth.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Now I did towards the end of the seventies because
the youth groups.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Ye, so you could burn the records.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
One stinking record, it just takes on. Well, here here's
one that's gone away. Decorating with tinsel.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
I love love tinsel.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
I don't know why we don't put ten I guess
Denise would have a heart attack if I put tinseil
in a tree.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Do they even make sell?
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Yeah, because you know, working when I used to well
it's been a long time since I've worked at Evans,
but when I was still at Evans and we sold
a lot of Christmas stuff, yeah, we had they sold tinsil.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
I remember getting yelled at by my sisters because I
didn't put the tensil on the tree right. Oh. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Everybody had their own technique. I always had. I always
started with a handful from the bottom and then I'd
move it up and shake it and let it fall, yeah,
until I got to the top of the tree, and
then you'd go get another handful. That's how I did mine,
That makes sense.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
I would just like take it and kind of like
throw it here and there. Yeah, but it would be
too clumpy, yeah, and the ceasars would yell at me, like, ah,
you're doing it wrong.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
I'm like yeah. The big down and I probably mentioned
this before, but the big downfall of tinsel at our
house was mister would eat eat one of the tensils
and then drag the pooper in the house half a
day because I wasn't getting in our old Chinese bug.
I don't know how he ate tinsil. I don't know.
(31:16):
Somehow he did, I don't know. Yeah, but yeah, tinsil.
I have not put tinsil on a Christmas tree probably
since the eighties.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Yeah, it's been late seventies for me.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
It's been a while.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
But I did, And I think I talked about this
the other day. I did like taking you know, we
had the big giant Sea nine bulbs, Sea nine bulbs
that were like the hot is the core of the sun,
and just take it and I'd lay one on it.
Smelt it right here in this room, right here.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Fire starter.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Oh yeah, it didn't start, It just melts it. Thought,
that's the coolest thing I can melt, the tensil.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
I love those big bulbs and Christmas trees.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
It's a wonder if more houses didn't burn down because
of that crab.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Yeah yeah, I don't know, because the trees. I think
every tree dried out.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Sure, yeah, because we'd give them the day after things.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Nobody nobody had the internet to have all these secret
tricks and keeping your even though I try all the
secret tricks in our trees still die like on the
third day. I don't know what, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Uh, of course here I think we've gotten we've gotten
back to the downtown Santa. But for a long time,
oh yeah, there was you know, it was just do
you want to go see Sandy, you had to go downtown.
Was it the courthouse lawn he was on?
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Yeah, so Enid. Yeah, we had a little Santa House
and in the seventies, yeah, you would take that's where
you went and got your picture with Santa Claus. And
then of course in the eighties then it became the mall, right,
and we had the big train going in a circle
around Santa Claus in the middle of the mall. But yeah,
but and so then the mall died, and then we
(33:11):
didn't have Santa Claus like anywhere. I mean, you know,
he would be like he would like show up at
a store for a day, but he was not like
permanently until like maybe two years ago. I think Tammy
Wilson brought the Santa Claus with the little Sanda House
back to by the skating ice skating rink. Oh yeah,
so so he's back kind of on a regular basis
(33:33):
the last couple of weeks before Christmas. But yeah, that
was a big Yeah. I don't really remember Santa in
the mall. Well, I guess, yeah, we'd go down a crossroads.
I'm sure Santa was at the mall. In the late seventies.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
You didn't take your girls to the oh you probably
didn't have girls from them oakwod Mall was okod Mall.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Yeah we did, but they yeah, they were little, but
I don't Yeah, I think we took them to see
Santa there. It was just barely it was dying out.
I mean because we used to go there and eat
at Katie's pantry. Oh, I remember setting the girls on
the table there in the food court and we'd eat
so but they were.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Like little, little little Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
So that's funny that we just got this from Julie
Family Christmas newsletters.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Yeah, yeah, we know.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Again, it's funny that it's one of the deals on
our list. We did not send out family newsletters in
the seventies, and we did not get family newsletters in
the seventies from anybody that we knew. But I would
say it is something that a lot of people have continued,
like Julie.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Yeah, well that makes sense. Yeah, makes sense. Uh. One
of the big things that we did because we would always,
as I remember it, we would always do Thanksgiving at
Pat and Nuncle Jay's house in Bigsby. And one of
the things we did while we were there before you know,
(35:03):
before everybody dispersed, was draw names for Christmas and and
and and that, and that evolved into because we didn't
go down Pat Ncle Jay's every year as time went on,
but at some point in time, everybody would draw names,
uh for Christmas, like I would get you know, you
(35:25):
know brothers Marsha or Cindy or whoever. Do do people
still draw names?
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Yeah, that's what we're So we do that. So when
we go down to Steve's Thanksgiving, all of the close
family that's going to come back for Christmas, we draw names.
And so this Saturday we'll go back to Steve's and well,
you know what we stopped doing. We used to draw names.
(35:55):
Now we do secrets, Annah, Yeah, the secret the where
you go where everybody gets a dirty We do dirty Sanda. Yeah.
We transformed from everybody getting a name I like dirty,
So now we do dirty Santa.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
So that's what we'll do Saturday.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
So so when Belle and I go to Wyoming to
meet Derek and his new boyfriend and their friends, uh,
I got an email, I got a text that said
I was on the list to play Secret Sanna and
I don't think I've ever played Secret Sannah. And they
put a maximum on the gift for fifty dollars. I'm like,
(36:36):
fifty dollars.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Say, I think we put thirty dollars on all.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Fifty dollars dollars fifty dollars. Well, whoever I get ain't
getting a fifty dollars gift. I can because I don't
even I mean, i've you know, well some of them
I don't know, but some of them I do know,
or we're only met once or twice. So the name
I got, and I'm not supposed to tell anybody who
I got because it's a secret. I'm like, I'm looking
to this name. I'm like, I don't know if that's
(36:59):
a man.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Yeah, you don't even know that. I don't know that person.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
So now I gotta, I gotta, I gotta call Derek.
And I'm like, okay, go down the list and describe
these people so I, you know, without him knowing who
it was, and I was really hoping I was gonna
get him, but it had been easy. No anyway, So yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Fun do it yourself Christmas crackers.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
What the hell are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Well, I'm wondering if there are those one things where
you pop them and they're ei there's stuff hidden inside.
It's not like a cracker. Now, we didn't do these,
but I kind of remember people. It's kind of like
a It was like a tube and then it was
wrapped on both ends and then you like pull them
(37:44):
cracked it open, and there was like stuff inside. I
guess people used to exchange those. They would have do
it yourself crackers, fill it with small trinkets, jokes and
festive surprises.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
That kind of sounds like a pinata almost.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Yeah, but they were you know, they're only you know,
not very big.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Oh, I've never heard of such thing.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Yeah, so we never made them, so but anyway, that
was something some people did back in the seventies.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
Yeah. Yeah, Christmas albums. People still make Christmas albums, not
that I know of. Man, give me a good old
Andy Williams or even better, Dean Martin.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
I listened to them in my office, but yeah, no,
I don't think people put on but that would be cool.
I mean, that would be a fun Christmas Eve is
to be sitting around the house and talking and drinking
and somebody put on some good old vinyl.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
I heard. I was watching a video the other day
about and this was songs. This was albums from the seventies,
and it was the song is. They were referring to
the song I'll Be Home for Christmas, which is really
a sad song because it's about Originally it's about like
(39:04):
it's a World War II song, and at the end
of the song, I'll be home for Christmas if only
in my if or like if only but only in
my dreams. But the video is about there's a oh,
what do you call it? It wouldn't it. It wasn't
a Mendela thing, but it was like, you think the
(39:27):
verse is a certain verse. So it's like you can
count on me that part, so as everyone remembers, the
song goes you can count on me. But apparently there's
(39:49):
only one popular version of that, and it's from Carpenter's
and she says you can count on me, but Elvis, Dean, Martin,
Perry Como and all these others say I can't remember
what they say, sorry you anyway, Sorry, something that's not that,
(40:11):
something that's not that. And then and then carpenter's not
the carpenter's. Carpenters say it the way while I remember it.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
Interesting, we'll have to. I'm sure somebody screaming at their
device telling us what the other version is, because I
think I've seen that somewhere.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
Yeah, before you can count on me, I'll remember since
we quit recording.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Yeah, holiday pot luck dinners, I do kind of remember
Tom in Virginia, which are kind of like my mom's
cousin that they would have like a night before Christmas
that we would go to their house and exchange gifts
with them and they would cook something, and it seems
like we all everybody took something. So yeah, so it
(40:54):
seems like we did do a lot more pot luck
dinners back in the seventies. And then of course I
think churches did huge pot lucky things all around the holidays.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
Yeah, everybody. Yeah, whoever's hosting like made the main thing
and everybody brought aside.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
Yeah, so that's what we did for Thanksgiving this year,
and we'll take something down for Christmas. So yeah, what
do you take Denise makes she makes her apple crisp, Oh, yeah,
apple crisp dessert. Then I think she takes. I think
(41:35):
sometimes she makes mashed potatoes. She puts cream cheese in
them and makes them all fluffy, fluffy. I don't know
what she's got this year. So we'll see another big
deal visiting Christmas tree lots, except we didn't really In
the seventies, we went to the grocery store. You know
(41:56):
it is usually the grocery store. We went to the
gas d Oh, yeah, I guess we did. Sometimes we'd
go to Johnny's Johnny's and get a tree at Johnny's.
But for some reason, I remember my mom getting them
at uh United supermarkets sometimes too. Yeah we did, so
must she must have been different years, different deals. And
then last one I got here is a holiday light tours.
(42:21):
And I do not remember, not that we didn't, but
I do not remember my mom driving us around looking
at Christmas lights in the seventies.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
Oh yeah we did, Oh yeah we did.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
And I took my kids and now I took Yeah,
we took our kids, but I don't remember my mom
oh taking us, I don't remember. I mean in Enid
in the seventies or was there like a neighborhood that
was real or did you just randomly have to drive
all over town to see.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
Yeah, yeah, I have to. I don't agree with you, because.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
It seems like by the by the eighties or nineties,
certain neighborhoods became famous for lights.
Speaker 2 (42:58):
But yeah, and they were keeping up with the Joneses,
and yeah, those neighborhoods could afford to keep Yeah, so Willow.
Speaker 1 (43:06):
Lake, it seems like in the eighties or nineties, Oh yeah,
it was Enid's yeah place.
Speaker 2 (43:11):
I don't I don't really remember in the seventies so
much now because now they're like super high tech and
you park on the side of the road and you
turn your radio to a certain station and the lights
play with music, and yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
There's there's still some houses. The thing is is getting
a whole neighborhood to participate is pretty tough these days.
There's usually you know, two or three houses, So to
make it worth the drive, you need like a neighborhood
where there's like a whole bunch of houses. Sure, and
then you run into like remember when Ski Island down
Oklahoma City used to do it like that was probably
(43:45):
in the nineties, the traffic was so bad it would
take two hours to get through. Once you got in,
you could never get back out until you went through
the hole.
Speaker 2 (43:54):
Yeah, so yeah, yeah, yeah, I haven't put Christmas lights on.
The last time I put Christmas lights on was on
the house on oak Wood, so that would have been
a while Jackson was That'd have been probably twelve years
ago since I bet Christmas lights. I didn't know what
Christmas slights are.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
Well, humbug, but I did.
Speaker 2 (44:19):
I got my Christmas tree? Did you see it? Humbug?
Speaker 1 (44:22):
I saw it? Humbug. Still calling bug.
Speaker 2 (44:26):
There's no one here except you to appreciate, Mike.
Speaker 1 (44:28):
Well, at least you could get a Charlie Brown Christmas tree.
Speaker 2 (44:32):
Golly, I kept thinking someone's gonna give me. Somebody might
want give me.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
How we do it on time over there. We're gonna
cut it short. If it may not even be short,
that's good. So I'll get playing on next week's uh
seventies Buzz podcast to be a little bit shorter.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
But uh, I don't know a little be short? Is
it going to be short?
Speaker 1 (44:53):
Because I because we're recording tonight and if we don't
make it short, we'll be here till eleven, and I
got stuff to do, so so it'll probably be short.
Speaker 2 (45:03):
Okay, we'll try to make it shorter. We'll see how
that goes.
Speaker 1 (45:08):
Plus, we got to get Christopher Todd on at some point,
so if we go another hour, he's he gonna be
in bed.
Speaker 2 (45:13):
Oh, because well he's on the West coast.
Speaker 1 (45:16):
He's our We got to do another another seventies Okay.
Speaker 2 (45:20):
So we're gonna we're gonna leave this and we're gonna
do another seventy. Shall we tell them what that one's about? Yeah,
talk about the Grinch, go into Grinch and I don't know, man,
I got I found a lot of stuff out about
the grind.
Speaker 1 (45:32):
You guys want to know something about the Grinch, you
better listen to I found out so I didn't even
know that.
Speaker 2 (45:37):
I didn't even know.
Speaker 1 (45:38):
All kinds of fun stuff. Yeah, okay, So you guys
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Speaker 2 (45:54):
See Christmas.
Speaker 1 (46:01):
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So so suck your toe.
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So so suck my toe all the way to Mexico?
Is that politically correct? Can we say that? Now? I
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(01:46):
warm and cozy and fun, shaw shaw shining. Yeah, so
hit us up like, Uh, we had a few I
got emails, we got phone calls. We got emails or
phone calls verse, let me do email real quick, so
it says I got it pulled up. Uh and there.
I won't go in real deep. But Leonard Barnes emailed
(02:09):
with some bizarre tourist traps for a roadside attraction.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
You keeping track of that.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
I am so, but I'm not going to talk about
him now. So but thanks Leonyard.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I don't think we've heard from Leonard before. I don't
recognize the name. Yeah, first time, long time, I know.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
I don't you know.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
My first time long time was.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
My memory, of course is not so good, so I
don't know. Philip Carrey Uh sent in so thanks for
the Christmas card and stickers.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Pillips and Philip Phillips.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yep said his Peanuts is his favorite. Talks about kitchen gadgets,
the hair in a can, pocket Fishermen, and the Ronco
hit music album not really a kitchen.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Well, I guess you probably do it in.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
The Ronco company products.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I guess this is what he's talking about. Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
He says, we had Ronco candle making kit and bottle
cutting kit. I think I might have had that too.
Bottle the bottle one was a good bottle cutting one.
Merry Christmas to us guys and our families. He says,
Did I miss you talking about making snow ice cream
on your Winter episode? That's something I still do to say. Yes, No,
you did not miss because I never made us.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I didn't hear about that. That was a thing too.
I was way into adulthood, like.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
And yeah, make a nice cream out of snow was
not a thing in our part of town.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I guess just buy ice cream.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
But thanks for that memory, Philip.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Just go to Broms and get some to.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Broms and then we Broms. Yep. Leonard sent another email
Popular Foods that had disappeared. I'll have to click on that.
That could be an episode. Uh, Steve from Austin says,
then some roadside to try it. Well, that snake one,
(03:57):
so we got that. Thank you for that, and then
Jeffrey emailed. During the seventies, the Netherlands was ruled by
Queen Juliana and Prime Minister Don Yu. We call the
seventies de Jeron's seventy bell bottom jeans. We called soul
(04:18):
broken broken PS. I made Onergurg for the first time.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Man, you just butchered his native tongue.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Good jobs on Annigury. I don't know. I don't.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Please don't take offense, Jeffrey, Queen, I don't.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I don't, and I don't even know what picture goes
with it. He sent pictures, but I don't since I
don't know how to say it, I think I can't.
I don't have no idea.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Maybe he could like spell it out.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
It's O, N I G I R I.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
You lost me at OI and I so okay.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Anyway, that's kind of the emails I have in front
of me. So thanks everybody for sending in those emails.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
So those who got cards and stickers sent should have
everybody should have got them all one.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Now oh yeah, by now if you yeah, yeah, okay,
if I had your address, you should have gotten something.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Okay. Uh Styton called, but that's for a buzz ed radio,
so check in to see what's Stayton.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
But real quick, real quick, Dave was wondering, how does Stanton?
How did Styton know so quickly what episode he called
in on?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
On seventies bus.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
On seventies bus and and so we'll get Dave and
Stateon out the way at the same time. Well, Dave
Stayton knows because that's what he's been doing, is going
through every episode and jotting down how many ums we say,
and how many times Todd burbs and how many times
Dave calls in and.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
How many times I see.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
So Styton's been cataloging all that, so he's got all
that in like a big spreadsheet. So he would have
to be the one that knows how many episodes you
have not called in on.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I'd be surprised of him because we.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Don't know off the top of our head.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I'm going to say, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
But for anybody wondering, Dave has been calling in since
twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yeah, I don't remember the date or whatever, and Dave
has another you want to do the do you want
to answer his He was confused about growing up in Oklahoma. Yeah,
gust seventies.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Yeah, Yeah, he forgot that we were doing Facebook Live
last week and that's why he missed his sister. Her
birthday is this Friday, which is my birthday. I thought
that was pretty cool. And then my wife's birthday was yesterday.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
And today's Mark Mankins's birthday.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
So we yeah, lots of December birthdays.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Dave.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
We don't exactly know what episode or what we exactly said.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Stateent does, but.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Dave is say said that we said something about growing
up in Oklahoma was great. It is, but then something
about we wouldn't want to grow up in Oklahoma.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Yeah. I think what we realized is it's being a
kid in Oklahoma in.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
The seventies was awesome. That's why we do this podcast.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Yeah, and wherever you lived would be awesome as a
just because it's you know, just being a kid in
the seventies was awesome no matter where you were. But
as you got to the point in your life you
started dating and wanted to go do stuff like we
didn't have big concerts. If we wanted to go see
Kansas or or any band, we'd have to go to
(07:44):
the city or Tulsa. I don't know. I don't ever
remember going to Tulsa to see a band.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
No, or out of state. So what we're thinking, Dave,
is maybe we were talking about like late high school
college age, when it wasn't that exciting to live in oklahom.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah, because because all of my kids in high school,
all of them, the spread of them, all were like, oh,
I can't wait to get out of out of ing it,
especially a lot of them moved to Oklahoma City and
then then they're like, no, we got to go.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Yeah, and I moved away.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Yeah at that age, so I didn't because I was father.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
You were tied down.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I had to work.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Yeah, So I so I don't know unless you can
tell us exactly what episode that was and what we said,
that's all we configure.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Yeah, And I've always said Oklahoma is a great place
to live, but not so much to visit unless you
know some guys that are podcasters there.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
You go and you want to come visit, and that
leads into Gretchen called Gretchen Call.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Yeah, see what did Gretch you'd have does she? Uh,
Gretchen is ready to go on an adventure.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
That's like I always say, everybody should have an adventure,
play and.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Up in the future, always something to look forward to.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Yeah. So yeah, So Oklahoma it's got some you know,
We've got the little River walk now, and we've got
the there's a Cowboy museum.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
And Oklahoma is very diverse. I mean we got deserts, mountains, rivers.
I think it's one of the one it's one of
the states that has like the most different different areas. Geographical,
it's different depending on where you go.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Oklahoma's cool, yeah, Oklahoma school.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
And by the way, Gretchen, it does not get hot
here in February and March.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
No, it's actually chiley in February.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I think February is probably are cold.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Well, I think March is when we get probably more
snow too.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Actually yeah, so yeah, April.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
I would come in May when there's tornadoes. Oh yeah,
I mean that's the thing that people literally come from
other countries to Oklahoma in May. You could take your
tornado to watch to chase tornadoes.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
You could take a tornado watching. I never been. You
can take us both I've never been there, you go, yeah, yeah,
so yeah, and if anybody needs space to stay, Curtis
has a lot of room in his house.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Whatever.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
I do have a guest house. And if anybody wants
to come there more than to excuse me, Todd get room,
just give me heads up so I get a clean
up because it's dusty.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
That's what we ought to do. Gretchen could come, and
Dave could come, and Christopher Todd could come, and uh
Paul from Australia could come.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Yeah, from down Under. Yeah sure, it could be like
to yeah sure, and they all have to be on
the podcast.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Oh yeah, oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
So if you're gonna come, make sure you're here on
a Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Exactly, plan not record on another night.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I guess we could, yeah, but that messes Curtis up.
When you mess up as Curtis, Curtis has a routine,
you do. Yeah, we don't want to message routina.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Yeah, so back to so back to Dave's Dave's thing
real quick. So yeah, so growing up in the seventies
in Oklahoma, Yeah, it was awesome. And again that's why
we do the podcast because had we grown up in
the sixties.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Which we were here in the sixties.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
But we weren't like growing up up. I mean we
were so young, we didn't really get to do a
lot of stuff on our own. And then by the
time we got to the eighties, we were driving and
kind of grown up.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
So getting in trouble growing up was greatest in the seventies.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
And why is that, mister Wheeler, Well, that was.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
The greatest decade, No, man, And it was You're gonna
hurt your voice on these days.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Oh no, oh no, s you should have used to
hear me when I do. Uh. When I was on
the radio with Klepper for those three years, I listened
every Friday. It's Friday, Friday, Friday Friday. I'd go for
as long as I could hold my breath.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Yeah, you want me to play that for you? Oh
you still have well, hecky, I still hang on. Give
me a second. I gotta find it. Look at that.
I gotta clean this. I gotta clean this board up here.
I got a shoot.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Yeah. So so here's real quick to let you guys
know what's happening with our podcasts. Tonight, we are going
to try to record four episodes, two Seventies Buzz and
two Buzzhead Radio.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
And so the.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
First episodes are probably going to be about forty five minutes,
maybe a little bit shorter than normal, and then we're
gonna squeeze in some thirty minute episodes to cover next week,
which would be Christmas Eve. And that way, because Tod's
gonna be out of town. We wouldn't have recorded anyway
because it was Christmas Eve. But that way, you guys
(12:52):
get an episode and we don't have to repeat an
old one.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
So I don't want to repeat it a lot. I
think I think we should repeat old ones every once
in a while.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Yeah, but anyway, we'll get We're going to give you
guys a little Christmas flavor next.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
I'm not sure this is it. Let's play this Friday Friday.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
And if you guys ever want to know what our
tornado sirens sound like, you just you just heard them.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
You just heard them.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
You just heard them.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
There you go, yeah, oh, speaking to tornadoes. We'll talk
about that Buzzhead Radio.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Okay, guys, don't forget come on over to Buzzhead Radio
and listen over there.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I've got an interesting.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
That Oh really, yes, you jotted that down, so we'll
forget that.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Okay, I got notes.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Okay, So for tonight's episode, we've got four notepads. We've
got to we got to squeeze in some Christmas episodes
this year, So.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
No last next, So yeah, tonight's episode.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Yeah. So some of this we've talked about before, but
like on different episodes. But basically, what we're going to
do is cover the seventies Christmas traditions that if they're gone,
ought to be brought back. And some of these some
of these have kind of disappeared, but some of them
(14:18):
are a little bit still around.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
I don't know that some of these need to come back.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Well, if you want to bring back that seventies flavor,
oh yeah, if you want to bring back lava seventies
type of Christmas. Yeah. So anyway, here's our list of
about seventeen traditions and see if you guys did these
traditions back.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
In the seventies. We only have twelve.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
I don't know, I'll snag the other five, I'm sure. Okay,
So homemade popcorn Garland. Did you guys make a popcorn
garland factory?
Speaker 2 (14:56):
I think I think we try one year, and it
just seemed like it was like a lot of trouble.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
See, it's funny you say that, because I think that's
exactly what Connying and I did. I think we did
it one Christmas and there was crud everywhere and the
popcorn was crumbling. There must be a secret, and then
so we I don't think we ever did it again.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Yeah no, I was like, yeah, I don't get.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
It, and I don't. I can't think of anybody whose
house I've been to in the last ten or twenty
years that still does it. So you guys, let us
know if anybody, any of our regular listeners. Do you
guys still do the popcorn garlands?
Speaker 2 (15:36):
See? I would take that as something they would do
back in like the eighteen hundreds when you couldn't go
to the couldn't go to T G and Y and
buy Christmas.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Which I think that's probably what they did, and then
it I'm guessing by the seventies it was probably fading out.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Yeah, so yeah, no, no popcorn garland.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
And then also says that people would put cranberries on
the strings as well corn and cranberry's.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Oh oh, the cranberries.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Yeah, oh yeah, I'd be putting them in a class
and adding vodka and bringing it.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Oh well, okay, okay, let's get over there.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
On your list.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Do they do Christmas TV specials anymore, like.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
The Brady Bunch or Sonny and Sheer or Andy Willis. Well,
last last night they did a little Big Town. They're
a country music group and so them. Yeah, so they
had like an hour special where they had you know,
different country artists on and they say Christmas songs. So yeah,
(16:47):
I think they do. I just don't watch them anymore,
but yeah, I think they do. I think every year
there's different, like Kelly Clarkson. Probably it sounds like something
Kelly Clarkson. I love Kelly Clarkson. Yeah, yeah, not hating,
not hear at all. I think they do. Okay, yeah,
you guys, let us know if you have any favorites.
I don't know. I'm sure there's some that are annual,
(17:10):
but I can't like I say I don't. I don't
watch them.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Well, now listen, I have to take that back. I
watched one last night. I watched two Christmas Ey New
Christmas Ey things this weekend, trying to get me kickstarted
into the Christmas spirit. Yeah, not quite there yet. I
watched the New Red One. Uh huh, that's pretty cool.
(17:35):
I think it should have been more well received. And
then I watched the new Oh gosh, the Ventriloquist Jeff Dunham.
Oh he had a he had a Christmas Special, and uh,
pretty good. But yeah, I didn't think of that as
a TV show. I guess I thought it was more
of an Amazon Prime show.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Yeah, but yeah, but there are TV I guess they
still special.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Oh, and that reminded me a shout out to Julie Losh.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
We almost forgotten Julie.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Yeah, Julie got us a card. It has the Peanuts
Gang on it. Yeah, so were and she sent us
like a little letter that talks about you know, how
you send your family letters about what happened all year long, And.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Yeah, I've never done that either.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Lots of people we I've never done it, but lots
of people do that. We have a couple of we
got one friend and a couple of relatives that will
get annual letters and it literally is just like everything
that's happened to their kids or grandkids or major things
that happened to them throughout the year.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
So yeah, I guess my family's pretty tight knit. Not
tight knit, but it's just not a lot of others.
I have two sisters, so I pretty much know whatever
is going on. Yeah, yeah, so yeah, if you had
a big family, that would be the that would make sense.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Yeah, And that leads into my next one, which is
Christmas card exchanges. Yes.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Now we.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
For some reason, we're not real good at sending out
Christmas cards. It's I probably put one together and we
mail out maybe every three years. But we have certain
families that we always and now it's not really even cards.
I guess it's you get a Shutterfly card that's doesn't
(19:22):
even open, but it's just a photo and then it's
got their name on the back or something. So that's
what we get. But as far as like the old
seventies Christmas card exchanges, we never did that. My fan
you know, like in.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Exchange, like yeah, that time's day exchange. Yeah, yeah, I
don't remember that. I remember getting Christmas and I remember
we would have like just tons and tons of Christmas cards.
I think I've got three this year. I get one
from my aunt and she's my last aunt, aunt Pat,
and I just got it yesterday and she is she's
(19:58):
she's getting up there, she's she's she's in her eighties
and she's still and she handwrites a little note and
it's a card that you open stuff. And that's that
kind of gets me into Christmas spere because when I
get when I get the card from Aunt Pat, it's like, yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Now it's time, Yes, it's getting I don't I don't
remember getting cards from many people in the seventies. So,
but my mom was divorced and grandma and great grandma
were right there, so your nucleus family was right there, yeah,
right there, like on the same block almost. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
So yeah, do you ever go caroling?
Speaker 1 (20:42):
You know, just with the I think with our youth group,
but it probably late late seventies, yeah, the manual. I
think we might have gone caroling at one Christmas, but
not like family or I have very rarely been Christmas caroling.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Okay, so I have never been Christmas caroling.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
And so what do you do?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
You just go up to random people's houses and sing.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Yeah. Now, some churches will, like I say, they'll go
out and they'll go to church members' houses, knock on
the door and sing to church members. And but yeah,
I mean there are some people that literally just go
down the neighborhood and knock on you can get shot
doing that. Yeah, that's it's not that again. That maybe
why it's not done like it used to be.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
That's that's to me. That's a how do you know
if somebody's home? Do you start singing when they open
the door? Do you start singing before?
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Yeah? No, you knock on the door and if they
don't answer, you don't sing. You go on to the
next one. But now with bring doorbells, probably nobody's answering
the door. They're like, uh, the.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Carrollers are here. Everybody dun You are being recorded.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
That's funny. You say, I had just gotten out of
the shower this morning and the doorbell no, no again, Yeah,
And I'm like, you're so. I yeah. So I look
on my app and this dude standing there with a
big box and I'm like, dude, I can't come to
the door right this second. Do I need to sign
for something? He says, well, I can sign for it.
(22:14):
And I said, I said, either you signed for it
or you gotta wait for me to throw on some
shorts and get there. And so he signed for it
and laid it down.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
I got things to do. Go him out of here. Yeah, Oh,
that's convenient.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know why everybody comes when I'm
in the shower. Yeah, well I shower at ten, So
maybe that's why. I don't know who knows? Who knows?
How about home made Christmas ornaments?
Speaker 2 (22:44):
I now, I think, Okay, so we did. I do.
I do remember taking like a National geographic and folding
it like they're like you'd fold one page and the
next page you'd fold a different way, and you keep
doing that and then you would like bring it around
(23:05):
and glue the front pages together. Yeah, make the little
tree thing, and you would like like I think we
spray painted and green and red and stuff. I do
remember doing that.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
I remember making ornaments in school and taking them home.
Oh ye, so, and I think we might even still
have some with the girls and maybe even me and
Denise when we were little. But as far as like
our family, we didn't like make I don't remember making ornaments.
We always had the real typical seventies ornaments though, the
(23:38):
ball you know, round bulbs and the funky shaped, oddly
colored things. But yeah, but no, I don't. I don't
know if people still do people still make a lot
of hand handmade Christmas ornaments, If you guys may if
there's anybody out there that makes handmade Christmas ornaments, let
us know. We'd love to see a picture, yeah, picture
(23:58):
of them.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Yeah yeah. Did you ever eat fruitcake?
Speaker 1 (24:04):
You know, I'm trying to think have I ever, like,
honestly eaten a bite of fruitcake? If I have, I
don't remember it, so I cannot honestly say that I've
ever tried fruitcake.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
So I was at the liquor store yesterday. Oh and
JB and Judy, you know, Copparatto was in there. There's
a couple ahead of me, and they buy some bourbon,
and I just kind of halfway listening to what they
were talking about, none of my business. And they left,
and you know up there talking to Judy and she's like,
(24:39):
I heard Judy say, well, maybe the bourbon will make
it better.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
I was gonna say, oh, yeah, I know people that
do put bourbon in their fruitcake.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
And she goes, have you ever had bourbon and fruitcake?
And I'm like, I don't ever remember having fruitcake because
it's it's always had a bad reputation that I.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
You know, and I think that's only because of comedians,
and that one comedian whoever said that there's only one.
And now that may have been later than the seventies,
but like, there's only one fruitcake in the world, and
everybody just just passes it around.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
It just I think gifts it.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Yeah, I really think comedians killed fruitcake. But they still
sell them and people still eat them.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Apparently, because apparently they make a lot of them. But
Judy told me she goes. She said, every fruitcake I
ever had was like really really heavy.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
They're really thick. Yeah. Yeah, I don't even know how
you make them.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
I don't think you make them. I think you just
buy them. Well, these people were making.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
One, Yeah, but I do know I remember knowing people
that made them with bourbon.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Huh. Well, couldn't hurt.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Yeah. So yeah, if anybody out there makes their own
fruitcakes or you know, a brand, send it to us, guys,
and we'll we'll actually eat fruitcake on air, just for
you guys. Somebody sends us a fruitcake. So how about
Christmas cookie swaps?
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Swaps?
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Swaps?
Speaker 2 (26:07):
I don't remember swaps. I remember mom making cookies around
the holidays.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
You know, my mom was not a baker. She was
barely a cook. The only I think the only thing
my mom ever baked, was in a you know, rectangle
cake pan. She would to save money, she would bake
me and Connie a cake. You know, it is just
a cake mix. But other than that, I don't think
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my mom ever baked. She never baked bread, or I don't.
I think Connie baked cookies every now and then, chocolate
chip cookies. But yeah, I don't remember ever doing a
cookie swap.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Swap like swap, like you make cookies. I'll make cookies
and we'll trade cookies.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Yeah, yeah, now I get well, but not in the seventies.
As gonna say, now, like our neighbor, she'll make cookies
and the fudge and this and then bring us a
little package and then Denise will make stuff and then
we'll take it to them. So I guess nowadays we
swap cookies, but I don't remember ever really doing that
(27:14):
in the seventies.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Why don't you just make your own and keep them? Well,
because it's kind of like trick or treating, you know,
why would I buy candy to give out and then
go out and get candy. I'll just eat the candy.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Well, but it's like Christmas too, I'm go, I have
to buy your kid a Christmas present, So you got
to buy my kid a Christmas present? So why don't
we just not buy each other's kid a Christmas present,
by our own kid an extra Christmas present?
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Exactly, Yeah, exactly exactly. Uh okay, I think we might
get some pushback on this. Oh what the heck is
an advent calendar? Well? I think I know what it is.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
It's just all the important religious dates up until there's
certain days up until Christmas.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Did you ever ever have an advent?
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Oh? No, we barely went to church, let alone had
an advent calendar.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
I think. I think honestly, the first time I ever
saw or had any reference to an advent calendar was
in the movie Home Alone.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Is it one that had the little doors?
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, because I remember thinking, what is that?
I've seen them in stores, you.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Know now, and I know what they are, but I
was just like, yeah, no, we we definitely did not.
I don't think we ever had a calendar in our house,
let alone.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
An advent calendar? What day is it? What month is it?
Speaker 1 (28:40):
I mean I couldn't. I couldn't tell you that, and
I you know, we started going to church, but you know,
as an adult and I still can't tell you the
days of Advent. I mean, I just I don't keep
up with that very well.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Okay, And isn't there like in some of them. Isn't
like when you open the door, it's like a little
treating there.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
I've never had one. Yeah, maybe, so I think there is.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
And then if you're in a household with you know,
three or four brothers and sisters, there's only one little
treat in that little bitty whole. Who gets the treat.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
You got for it?
Speaker 2 (29:19):
All right? Well, that brings out the true spear of
Christmas right there.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Yeah, don't you guys let us know our advent calendar
is still a big deal today or did I guess
did you guys have one in the seventies, because we
know we did not?
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Never, I mean literally that was when we went to
church Christmas Day and Eastern. Other than that, we didn't.
We didn't go to church a whole.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Lot heathens youth.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Now I did towards the end of the seventies because
the youth groups.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Ye, so you could burn the records.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
One stinking record, it just takes on. Well, here here's
one that's gone away. Decorating with tinsel.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
I love love tinsel.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
I don't know why we don't put ten I guess
Denise would have a heart attack if I put tinseil
in a tree.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Do they even make sell?
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Yeah, because you know, working when I used to well
it's been a long time since I've worked at Evans,
but when I was still at Evans and we sold
a lot of Christmas stuff, yeah, we had they sold tinsil.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
I remember getting yelled at by my sisters because I
didn't put the tensil on the tree right. Oh. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Everybody had their own technique. I always had. I always
started with a handful from the bottom and then I'd
move it up and shake it and let it fall, yeah,
until I got to the top of the tree, and
then you'd go get another handful. That's how I did mine,
That makes sense.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
I would just like take it and kind of like
throw it here and there. Yeah, but it would be
too clumpy, yeah, and the ceasars would yell at me, like, ah,
you're doing it wrong.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
I'm like yeah. The big down and I probably mentioned
this before, but the big downfall of tinsel at our
house was mister would eat eat one of the tensils
and then drag the pooper in the house half a
day because I wasn't getting in our old Chinese bug.
I don't know how he ate tinsil. I don't know.
(31:16):
Somehow he did, I don't know. Yeah, but yeah, tinsil.
I have not put tinsil on a Christmas tree probably
since the eighties.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Yeah, it's been late seventies for me.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
It's been a while.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
But I did, And I think I talked about this
the other day. I did like taking you know, we
had the big giant Sea nine bulbs, Sea nine bulbs
that were like the hot is the core of the sun,
and just take it and I'd lay one on it.
Smelt it right here in this room, right here.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Fire starter.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Oh yeah, it didn't start, It just melts it. Thought,
that's the coolest thing I can melt, the tensil.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
I love those big bulbs and Christmas trees.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
It's a wonder if more houses didn't burn down because
of that crab.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Yeah yeah, I don't know, because the trees. I think
every tree dried out.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Sure, yeah, because we'd give them the day after things.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Nobody nobody had the internet to have all these secret
tricks and keeping your even though I try all the
secret tricks in our trees still die like on the
third day. I don't know what, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Uh, of course here I think we've gotten we've gotten
back to the downtown Santa. But for a long time,
oh yeah, there was you know, it was just do
you want to go see Sandy, you had to go downtown.
Was it the courthouse lawn he was on?
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Yeah, so Enid. Yeah, we had a little Santa House
and in the seventies, yeah, you would take that's where
you went and got your picture with Santa Claus. And
then of course in the eighties then it became the mall, right,
and we had the big train going in a circle
around Santa Claus in the middle of the mall. But yeah,
but and so then the mall died, and then we
(33:11):
didn't have Santa Claus like anywhere. I mean, you know,
he would be like he would like show up at
a store for a day, but he was not like
permanently until like maybe two years ago. I think Tammy
Wilson brought the Santa Claus with the little Sanda House
back to by the skating ice skating rink. Oh yeah,
so so he's back kind of on a regular basis
(33:33):
the last couple of weeks before Christmas. But yeah, that
was a big Yeah. I don't really remember Santa in
the mall. Well, I guess, yeah, we'd go down a crossroads.
I'm sure Santa was at the mall. In the late seventies.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
You didn't take your girls to the oh you probably
didn't have girls from them oakwod Mall was okod Mall.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Yeah we did, but they yeah, they were little, but
I don't Yeah, I think we took them to see
Santa there. It was just barely it was dying out.
I mean because we used to go there and eat
at Katie's pantry. Oh, I remember setting the girls on
the table there in the food court and we'd eat
so but they were.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Like little, little little Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
So that's funny that we just got this from Julie
Family Christmas newsletters.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Yeah, yeah, we know.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Again, it's funny that it's one of the deals on
our list. We did not send out family newsletters in
the seventies, and we did not get family newsletters in
the seventies from anybody that we knew. But I would
say it is something that a lot of people have continued,
like Julie.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Yeah, well that makes sense. Yeah, makes sense. Uh. One
of the big things that we did because we would always,
as I remember it, we would always do Thanksgiving at
Pat and Nuncle Jay's house in Bigsby. And one of
the things we did while we were there before you know,
(35:03):
before everybody dispersed, was draw names for Christmas and and
and and that, and that evolved into because we didn't
go down Pat Ncle Jay's every year as time went on,
but at some point in time, everybody would draw names,
uh for Christmas, like I would get you know, you
(35:25):
know brothers Marsha or Cindy or whoever. Do do people
still draw names?
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Yeah, that's what we're So we do that. So when
we go down to Steve's Thanksgiving, all of the close
family that's going to come back for Christmas, we draw names.
And so this Saturday we'll go back to Steve's and well,
you know what we stopped doing. We used to draw names.
(35:55):
Now we do secrets, Annah, Yeah, the secret the where
you go where everybody gets a dirty We do dirty Sanda. Yeah.
We transformed from everybody getting a name I like dirty,
So now we do dirty Santa.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
So that's what we'll do Saturday.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
So so when Belle and I go to Wyoming to
meet Derek and his new boyfriend and their friends, uh,
I got an email, I got a text that said
I was on the list to play Secret Sanna and
I don't think I've ever played Secret Sannah. And they
put a maximum on the gift for fifty dollars. I'm like,
(36:36):
fifty dollars.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Say, I think we put thirty dollars on all.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Fifty dollars dollars fifty dollars. Well, whoever I get ain't
getting a fifty dollars gift. I can because I don't
even I mean, i've you know, well some of them
I don't know, but some of them I do know,
or we're only met once or twice. So the name
I got, and I'm not supposed to tell anybody who
I got because it's a secret. I'm like, I'm looking
to this name. I'm like, I don't know if that's
(36:59):
a man.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Yeah, you don't even know that. I don't know that person.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
So now I gotta, I gotta, I gotta call Derek.
And I'm like, okay, go down the list and describe
these people so I, you know, without him knowing who
it was, and I was really hoping I was gonna
get him, but it had been easy. No anyway, So yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Fun do it yourself Christmas crackers.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
What the hell are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Well, I'm wondering if there are those one things where
you pop them and they're ei there's stuff hidden inside.
It's not like a cracker. Now, we didn't do these,
but I kind of remember people. It's kind of like
a It was like a tube and then it was
wrapped on both ends and then you like pull them
(37:44):
cracked it open, and there was like stuff inside. I
guess people used to exchange those. They would have do
it yourself crackers, fill it with small trinkets, jokes and
festive surprises.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
That kind of sounds like a pinata almost.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Yeah, but they were you know, they're only you know,
not very big.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Oh, I've never heard of such thing.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Yeah, so we never made them, so but anyway, that
was something some people did back in the seventies.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
Yeah. Yeah, Christmas albums. People still make Christmas albums, not
that I know of. Man, give me a good old
Andy Williams or even better, Dean Martin.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
I listened to them in my office, but yeah, no,
I don't think people put on but that would be cool.
I mean, that would be a fun Christmas Eve is
to be sitting around the house and talking and drinking
and somebody put on some good old vinyl.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
I heard. I was watching a video the other day
about and this was songs. This was albums from the seventies,
and it was the song is. They were referring to
the song I'll Be Home for Christmas, which is really
a sad song because it's about Originally it's about like
(39:04):
it's a World War II song, and at the end
of the song, I'll be home for Christmas if only
in my if or like if only but only in
my dreams. But the video is about there's a oh,
what do you call it? It wouldn't it. It wasn't
a Mendela thing, but it was like, you think the
(39:27):
verse is a certain verse. So it's like you can
count on me that part, so as everyone remembers, the
song goes you can count on me. But apparently there's
(39:49):
only one popular version of that, and it's from Carpenter's
and she says you can count on me, but Elvis, Dean, Martin,
Perry Como and all these others say I can't remember
what they say, sorry you anyway, Sorry, something that's not that,
(40:11):
something that's not that. And then and then carpenter's not
the carpenter's. Carpenters say it the way while I remember it.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
Interesting, we'll have to. I'm sure somebody screaming at their
device telling us what the other version is, because I
think I've seen that somewhere.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
Yeah, before you can count on me, I'll remember since
we quit recording.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Yeah, holiday pot luck dinners, I do kind of remember
Tom in Virginia, which are kind of like my mom's
cousin that they would have like a night before Christmas
that we would go to their house and exchange gifts
with them and they would cook something, and it seems
like we all everybody took something. So yeah, so it
(40:54):
seems like we did do a lot more pot luck
dinners back in the seventies. And then of course I
think churches did huge pot lucky things all around the holidays.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
Yeah, everybody. Yeah, whoever's hosting like made the main thing
and everybody brought aside.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
Yeah, so that's what we did for Thanksgiving this year,
and we'll take something down for Christmas. So yeah, what
do you take Denise makes she makes her apple crisp, Oh, yeah,
apple crisp dessert. Then I think she takes. I think
(41:35):
sometimes she makes mashed potatoes. She puts cream cheese in
them and makes them all fluffy, fluffy. I don't know
what she's got this year. So we'll see another big
deal visiting Christmas tree lots, except we didn't really In
the seventies, we went to the grocery store. You know
(41:56):
it is usually the grocery store. We went to the
gas d Oh, yeah, I guess we did. Sometimes we'd
go to Johnny's Johnny's and get a tree at Johnny's.
But for some reason, I remember my mom getting them
at uh United supermarkets sometimes too. Yeah we did, so
must she must have been different years, different deals. And
then last one I got here is a holiday light tours.
(42:21):
And I do not remember, not that we didn't, but
I do not remember my mom driving us around looking
at Christmas lights in the seventies.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
Oh yeah we did, Oh yeah we did.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
And I took my kids and now I took Yeah,
we took our kids, but I don't remember my mom
oh taking us, I don't remember. I mean in Enid
in the seventies or was there like a neighborhood that
was real or did you just randomly have to drive
all over town to see.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
Yeah, yeah, I have to. I don't agree with you, because.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
It seems like by the by the eighties or nineties,
certain neighborhoods became famous for lights.
Speaker 2 (42:58):
But yeah, and they were keeping up with the Joneses,
and yeah, those neighborhoods could afford to keep Yeah, so Willow.
Speaker 1 (43:06):
Lake, it seems like in the eighties or nineties, Oh yeah,
it was Enid's yeah place.
Speaker 2 (43:11):
I don't I don't really remember in the seventies so
much now because now they're like super high tech and
you park on the side of the road and you
turn your radio to a certain station and the lights
play with music, and yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
There's there's still some houses. The thing is is getting
a whole neighborhood to participate is pretty tough these days.
There's usually you know, two or three houses, So to
make it worth the drive, you need like a neighborhood
where there's like a whole bunch of houses. Sure, and
then you run into like remember when Ski Island down
Oklahoma City used to do it like that was probably
(43:45):
in the nineties, the traffic was so bad it would
take two hours to get through. Once you got in,
you could never get back out until you went through
the hole.
Speaker 2 (43:54):
Yeah, so yeah, yeah, yeah, I haven't put Christmas lights on.
The last time I put Christmas lights on was on
the house on oak Wood, so that would have been
a while Jackson was That'd have been probably twelve years
ago since I bet Christmas lights. I didn't know what
Christmas slights are.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
Well, humbug, but I did.
Speaker 2 (44:19):
I got my Christmas tree? Did you see it? Humbug?
Speaker 1 (44:22):
I saw it? Humbug. Still calling bug.
Speaker 2 (44:26):
There's no one here except you to appreciate, Mike.
Speaker 1 (44:28):
Well, at least you could get a Charlie Brown Christmas tree.
Speaker 2 (44:32):
Golly, I kept thinking someone's gonna give me. Somebody might
want give me.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
How we do it on time over there. We're gonna
cut it short. If it may not even be short,
that's good. So I'll get playing on next week's uh
seventies Buzz podcast to be a little bit shorter.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
But uh, I don't know a little be short? Is
it going to be short?
Speaker 1 (44:53):
Because I because we're recording tonight and if we don't
make it short, we'll be here till eleven, and I
got stuff to do, so so it'll probably be short.
Speaker 2 (45:03):
Okay, we'll try to make it shorter. We'll see how
that goes.
Speaker 1 (45:08):
Plus, we got to get Christopher Todd on at some point,
so if we go another hour, he's he gonna be
in bed.
Speaker 2 (45:13):
Oh, because well he's on the West coast.
Speaker 1 (45:16):
He's our We got to do another another seventies Okay.
Speaker 2 (45:20):
So we're gonna we're gonna leave this and we're gonna
do another seventy. Shall we tell them what that one's about? Yeah,
talk about the Grinch, go into Grinch and I don't know, man,
I got I found a lot of stuff out about
the grind.
Speaker 1 (45:32):
You guys want to know something about the Grinch, you
better listen to I found out so I didn't even
know that.
Speaker 2 (45:37):
I didn't even know.
Speaker 1 (45:38):
All kinds of fun stuff. Yeah, okay, So you guys
hit us up five eight oho five for one three
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the questions we ask you about traditions in Christmas traditions
in the seventies, and you can email call all the
good stuff we're can you get out here?
Speaker 2 (45:54):
See Christmas.
Speaker 1 (46:01):
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